Susan Harkins
ssharkins at gmail.com
Sun Aug 3 07:35:35 CDT 2008
I'm the same way. For a long time, you could purchase the manual for a reasonable shipping fee, but I haven't even seen that offer in a while. Susan H. > > Personally I liked it when you used to get a great fat box that included a > manual the size of a phone book when you purchased your software. I can > see lots of good reasons why they don't do this anymore, but even so, I > used to like reading those manuals in paper form. I am not a big fan of > 'on screen' or PDF help - even though it makes total economic and > environmental sense not to provide the manuals anymore. > > oh well... > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of William > Hindman > Sent: Sunday, 3 August 2008 8:46 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor > > > ...its funny but its not funny at the same time ...I still run a copy of > the > A97 help files simply because they are better than anything since ...MUCH > better ...every once in a while you hear the MS Access team ask what we > want > to see in the next revision ...there is an entire site dedicated to a list > of long standing bugs in Access, the help file prominent among them ...but > what did we get in A2k7? > > ...the RIBBON from hell! ...and the bugs and no-help files are still with > us > :( > > William > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Dan Waters" <dwaters at usinternet.com> > Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 6:13 PM > To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor > >> Aaaaargh! That made me laugh too! >> >> Thanks William :-) >> >> Dan >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William >> Hindman >> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 10:56 AM >> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor >> >> ...hey! ...its as good or better than 70% of the rest of what's in the >> "help" files ...imnsho, of course :) >> William >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Tina Norris Fields" <tinanfields at torchlake.com> >> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 8:33 AM >> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" >> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor >> >>> Hi Dan, >>> >>> Okay, I get it. But, Microsoft has been putting those ads for 2007 in >>> the Help items for long enough that I expected it and didn't get the >>> joke. It's annoying and disappointing that they do that, but it isn't >>> new to me. >>> >>> Yours is a perfect question: what are they doing putting advertising >>> into the Help file? I would also like them to stop. >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> Dan Waters wrote: >>>> You're not missing anything! >>>> >>>> What is Microsoft doing putting advertising into the Help file? That's >>>> over >>>> the top, even for them! >>>> >>>> Dan >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >>>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina Norris >>>> Fields >>>> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 6:20 AM >>>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving >>>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Almost Friday Humor >>>> >>>> Okay, maybe I'm just being dense here, but all the See Also offers is >>>> the choice to buy Microsoft Office 2007 or a free trial of the Office >>>> 2007 system. What am I missing? >>>> Tina >>>> >>>> Dan Waters wrote: >>>> >>>>> In Access Help, look for 'Configuring the Microsoft Jet Database >>>>> Engine >>>>> >>>> for >>>> >>>>> ODBC Access'. >>>>> >>>>> At the bottom click on See Also. >>>>> >>>>> I know I just got done saying this one's better, but do you have to >>>>> put >>>>> >>>> this >>>> >>>>> in Help? >>>>> >>>>> :-) >>>>> >>>>> Dan >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> -- >>> AccessD mailing list >>> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > This email and any attachments may contain privileged and confidential > information > and are intended for the named addressee only. 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